Mary Ann Bernard

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    Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves ...
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)